Bsd Now

The NetBSD 8.0 release process is underway, we try to measure the weight of an electron, and look at stack clashing. This episode was brought to you by Headlines NetBSD 8.0 release process underway (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2017/06/06/msg000267.html) Soren Jacobsen writes on NetBSD-announce: If you've been reading source-changes@, you likely noticed the recent creation of the netbsd-8 branch. If you haven't been reading source-changes@, here's some news: the netbsd-8 branch has been created, signaling the beginning of the release process for NetBSD 8.0. We don't have a strict timeline for the 8.0 release, but things are looking pretty good at the moment, and we expect this release to happen in a shorter amount of time than the last couple major releases did. At this point, we would love for folks to test out netbsd-8 and let us know how it goes. A couple of major improvements since 7.0 are the addition of USB 3 support and an overhaul of the audio subsystem, including an in-kernel mixe